U.S. Welcomes Saudi and Emirati Leadership Supporting Yemen’s Sovereignty and Regional Security

On a State Department web page, “Exception: forbidden” usually means the server received your request but refused to give you the page, most often because of a permissions or access-control setting (commonly associated with an HTTP 403 Forbidden error). Here it’s being shown inside a generic “technical difficulties” page, so it indicates a server-side access or configuration problem rather than something you did wrong.

Yes. Search and index pages on state.gov list this press statement under the Office of the Spokesperson and in the general press releases index, pointing to the same canonical URL. However, when that URL is requested it currently returns the same “technical difficulties / Exception: forbidden” error, so there is no alternative working copy on state.gov itself at this time.

The full text of the statement is available on several non‑State‑Department platforms that routinely mirror U.S. government releases, including Public Now, GlobalSecurity.org, and a policy‑tracking Substack, all of which reproduce the same December 26, 2025 press statement text attributed to the U.S. Department of State. There is no evidence yet of an official PDF mirror or a post of this exact statement on the State Department’s main social media feeds, though related Yemen statements often appear there.

Yes. The combination of a generic “We’re sorry, this site is currently experiencing technical difficulties” banner and “Exception: forbidden” strongly suggests a server‑side problem such as misconfigured permissions, access rules, or security filtering on state.gov. In practice this can be caused by a temporary backend failure, a faulty access‑control rule (including possible geoblocking or IP‑based blocking), or an internal publishing permission setting that is denying public access even though the item is listed. The exact cause is not disclosed, but any of these server‑side issues would fit the symptoms.

For an inaccessible press release, the recommended contact points are:

• The State Department’s main public information line and contact form, which can route requests to the Office of the Spokesperson or the appropriate bureau.
• The Press Office in the Office of the Spokesperson, if you are media or need an official text.

Contact options are listed on the State Department’s contact and media pages; you can reference the title and date of the press statement when requesting the full text.

There is no dedicated government PDF archive of this specific statement visible yet, but there are two main places to check for an official or near‑official copy:

• The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which routinely captures state.gov pages and allows you to save the current (even broken) URL for future archiving.
• The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), which provides official records for many executive‑branch documents, though it does not systematically mirror every State Department press release.

At the time of checking, the specific press release URL does not yet show a captured copy on archive.org via search, but the Wayback service can be used to attempt a manual capture once the page is accessible again.